National Register of Historic Places in Kansas

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Abilene City Park Historic District

4th Street at Poplar Street and Pine Street
Abilene (Dickinson County)
Listed in National Register 6/06/2002

Architect: Murray & Clayton
Category: recreational district

Abilene Downtown Historic District

Roughly bounded by NE 4th, W 1st, S Walnut, and N Olive Streets
Abilene (Dickinson County)
Listed in National Register 9/1/2009

Architect: Underwood, Gilbert Stanley,Cayton & Murray
Category: government office; rail-related; commerce

As county seat and, with the arrival of the railroad, as the rail head for the Chisholm Trail, Abilene grew to become a major railroad agricultural market center in Dickinson County and in Kansas. The physical and architectural development of the downtown commercial center reflects the importance of the railroad in the community?s commercial history. The arrangement of the railroad grade dictated the location and arrangement of industrial buildings, commercial businesses, and institutional buildings. At the turn of the twentieth century Abilene embraced the City Beautiful Movement with the construction of several Classical Revival-style government and institutional buildings including the city hall, auditorium, post office, and the Carnegie Library. The vast majority of the extant buildings in the district served retail sales and commercial service functions, many of which had mixed uses and included ground floor sales and service spaces with storefronts and second-story spaces to accommodate meeting halls, offices for professional services, and residential apartments. The downtown historic district is nominated for its associations with the growth and development of Abilene as a county seat and railroad market center and its representation of popular architectural styles.

Abilene Historic District #1

301, 303, 305, 307, 309 N. Buckeye
Abilene (Dickinson County)
Listed in National Register 01/11/2006

Architect: Not listed
Category: single dwelling; commerce

National Register Nomination

Abilene Union Pacific Railroad Freight Depot

110 North Cedar Street
Abilene (Dickinson County)
Listed in National Register 9/02/1993

Architect: Gilbert Stanley Underwood
Category: rail-related

National Register Nomination

Abilene Union Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot

Jct. Of N. Second St. and Broadway
Abilene (Dickinson County)
Listed in National Register 9/08/1992

Architect: Gilbert Stanley Underwood
Category: rail-related

National Register Nomination

Berger House

208 NE 12th St.
Abilene (Dickinson County)
Listed in National Register 6/27/2007

Architect: Not listed
Category: secondary structure; single dwelling

The Berger House is nominated for its architectural significance as one of fewer than 100 extant Lustron houses in Kansas. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, architectural pundits heralded the prefabricated house - particularly the metal house - as the wave of the future. The most famous producer of the prefabricated metal home of the postwar era was the Lustron Corporation, which manufactured an all-steel house that it boasted could be sold for $7,000. The Berger House (c. 1949), is the Westchester Deluxe two-bedroom model with its "Maize Yellow" exterior and "Dove Gray' roof tiles, and its two bedrooms. There were eight Lustron dealers in Kansas - including Smith Implements in Abilene. The Berger House was the first of two Lustron houses to be built in Abilene.